I was recommended to ask you about the issue I am having. I have Eaton 3105s' and Spiceworks and so am very excited about the new features. I fired up Spiceworks, checked the version, 5.1 did an inventory scan etc, In the UPS catagory I only see my BIG UPS (LAN Attached) but none of the 3105 units attached via usb. I did some further reading in the forums and found someone saying that Spiceworks should see the usb attached ups via wmi. I checked the ups catagory in wmi and there is nothing... EUREKA! The ups is showing up in device manager as "USB UPS (X-Slot)" and the Software that came with the UPS runs and seems to be working. When I go to "Start" "Control Panel" "Power Options" I have a UPS tab but it only has the default options of APC or Generic - nothing for Eaton and without that I cannot start the UPS service which in turn (I think) will let the UPS show up in WMI leading to Spiceworks seeing it?!? (Phewph!) Am I way off base here? Please help!

That is exactly what I thought... at first. Then I found a post saying that spiceworks reads info for usb attached ups via wmi. I think it might work... If I understand correctly it goes ups, usb, wmi, snmp, lan, spiceworks. There is a wmi catagory called "Win32_UninterruptablePowerSupply" that I believe Spiceworks polls. Mine shows nothing there... Also Windows Integrated Power Management does not show Eaton either. I think that if I can fix this, Spiceworks will see the ups... I have no idea how to achive that however! The ups is an eaton 3105. XP shows it in device manager. I cannot start the UPS Service because windows requires the UPS show up in Power Management first.... Ideas? At this point I will be happy if I can get Spiceworks to see it at all & worry about what it sees later lol!